CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927 — Page 113

No. 146.

(F 3023/310/87)

sir,

Feb. 24

Co HO Mch. 2.

To 4.0. Medry

H.O.

FOREIGN OFFICE, S.V.1.

7th April, 1927

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With reference to my despatch No. 359 of

November 16th laet regarding the supply of Indian opitam

opå

to Maono, I trammit herewith copies of correspondence

between the Colonial Office, the Home Office and this

department, together with a copy of a report submitted to

the League of Nations by the Fortuguese Government on the

traffic in opium for 1925, from which it will be seen that

considerable supplies of such opium are still ava ilable

in the colony although direct importation from India

ceased nearly two years ago, viz. in April 1925.

2. I will roca 11 that in 1926 the Government of

India decided gradually to extinguish her opium trade by

annual reductions and to limit her future, diminishing,

exports to countries with which she had an existing agreement.

Those countries, vis, Malaya, Hongkong, Ceylon, the State

of North Borneo, Sarawak, Siam, Indo-China and the

Netherlands East Indies, which ressive Indian opium

annually, are bound by article VI of the Opium Agreement

of 1925, to which all the above, ine lud ing Portugal, are

parties, not to permit re-exportation. This agreement

did not, it is true, came into operation till 28th July

1986, and then only as between Prance, Great Britain and

India. Portugal did not retify till 13th September, 1926.

Prior, however, to

to the new Agreement coming into force, the

export /

His Excellency

The Right Honourable

Sir Lancelot Carnegie, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G..

etc..

etc..

Lisbon.

etc..